Gerhard Richter ist ein deutscher Maler, Bildhauer und Fotograf. Er war von 1971 bis 1993 Professor für Malerei an der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Seine Werke zählen auf dem Kunstmarkt zu den teuersten eines lebenden Künstlers.
“Pop art is neither an American invention nor an import, yet the terms and names were coined in the US, where they were popularised much faster than in Germany. This kind of art has evolved organically and independently over here, yet at the same time it becomes an analogy to American pop art due to certain psychological, cultural and economical preconditions that are the same in Germany as they are in the US. [...] For the first time we are showing paintings in Germany that relate to those terms, representing pop art, junk culture, imperial or capitalistic realism, new figuration, naturalism, German pop and other comparable terms.”